Women and business schools: a look at progress
A decade ago, the University of Michigan published a landmark study that examined why fewer women attended schools of business than schools of medicine or law.
The research became a veritable call to arms in the business school community and helped launch the Forté Foundation, a US consortium of companies and business schools that aims to address this imbalance and its effect on the corporate world. (more…)
NewsWomen do not lack ambition, but they need to be more assertive in marketing their skills when they have boardroom aspirations - Jun 15
An increasing number of companies are appointing chief operating officers. Liz Bolshaw speaks to two women who have taken on this influential role - Jun 15
Liz Bolshaw talks to the former World Bank managing director who says she is still an activist for democracy - Jun 15
The rise in the proportion of female directors globally is glacial, with only legislation seeming to force the pace of change - Mar 08
The move towards greater gender diversity in the boardroom is happening far too slowly - Mar 07
Liz Bolshaw quizzes India Gary-Martin, managing director, technology and operations, at JPMorgan’s investment bank in London - Mar 07
Business guru Candida Brush on how to succeed as a female entrepreneur - Mar 07
Liz Bolshaw looks at how companies have moved to increase the representation of women on boards, 12 months on from Lord Davies’ review - Jan 26
In boardrooms, compulsory gender quotas are contentious, but it has been used successfully in politics around the globe - Jan 26
Miki Tsusaka on how women can help the global economy achieve its great transformation - Jan 27
Social norms and a lack of childcare hinder government bids to make the most of the country’s well-educated female workforce, writes Lindsay Whipp - Dec 07
Rebecca Knight finds that many female-owned small businesses offer a good work/life balance - Dec 07
Jill Abramson is the executive editor of the New York Times, the first woman in this role in the paper’s 160-year history - Dec 07
Why taking risks has helped women power their way into boardrooms around the world, writes Andrew Hill - Nov 15
Read the full profiles, view photographs and comment on our ranking - Nov 15
Melanne Verveer, US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, explains why progess is being made in advancing women’s rights - Nov 15
Laurence Parisot holds a master’s degree in public law and was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2003 - Nov 15
Sung-Joo Kim, head of MCM Group, on her career and the business of luxury - Nov 16
Could it be that the dearth of women at the senior level is down to a time lag, or is it deliberate choice?, By Gillian Tett - Nov 15
Dina de Angelo grew up in Connecticut, Greenwich, and has spent her whole career in private banking, working with large, complex, family offices - Nov 15
A senior woman’s departure can create as much of a buzz as her arrival - Nov 15
Political power remains elusive for many women in the EU, especially so in central Europe, but even in the business - Oct 11
Two new initiatives seek to establish common ways to measure progress, writes Andrew Hill - Oct 11
Lori Cohen, a successful female trial attorney with 55 straight trial wins under her belt, is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm. She has a national litigation practice focusing on medical device and pharmaceutical litigation. - Oct 11
The French businesswoman campaigns for more female representation in senior roles across all walks of life, writes Liz Bolshaw - Oct 11
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